CAMERA AND EDITING

Maria Juliana Byck

TRT: 00:27:52  2024

This experimental documentary aims to chronicle our collective learning process, bringing together diverse recording methods such as audio, video, writing, poetry, self-reflection, dialogue, interviews, and movement. The objective is to deepen our understanding and connection to one another and the ecological system we are part of. By exploring care, healing, and marginalized knowledges, we seek to shed light on our shared growth and learning. The film delves into various subjects, including mourning, voice, the body-environment relationship, intuition, divination, biodiversity, and self-discovery. The film uncovers the impact on our bodies, emotions, relationships, tracing connections between the healing processes of the collective and the earth.

A gathering of artifacts from workshops and encounters initiated through our ongoing public program “Healing Exercises: Inherited and (e)merging women’s knowledges for collective learning and interspecies connections”The aim is to use video storytelling to foster stronger bonds with those around us, transforming ourselves from disposable and extractive beings into a collective entity guided by a profound connection to our environment.

An exploration unveils the transformative power of recalibrating our bodies to different time references, harmonizing with the rhythm of hills, stones, trees, and water. Combining images, thoughts, exercises, found footage, recordings, interviews and research highlights the intimate explorations and findings of our collective work. Connecting the knowledge generated throughout the project into a montage of reflections we hope has potential to spark new actions, dialogue and further discoveries.